Who else can help with this problem? I tried to write to WernerAlmesberger <werner.almesberger@epfl.ch> (no such email) and Hans Lermen<lermen@fgan.de>, but no response from either.

I'm suspecting that somehow part of initrd is being corrupted during bootup or may be ungzip is not working properly, because I can definitelygzip/ungzip on all versions of running Linux for the ram.gz filesystem Icreated. Again, the only difference between ram-18mb.gz (6MB) andram-24mb.gz (8MB) is ram24.gz contains one extra file to fill up thefilesystem to 90%.

Same bzImage, same ramdisk_size=28000, just different initrd files.ram-18mb.gz boots, ram-24mb.gz hangs.

> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ... then stuck!> Force a 1K block size when you make the fs

That was the default for mke2fs.

Tried compress instead of gzip. Same problem. I guess the compressed fileis too big for the kernel. The 8MB compressed (from 24MB) didn't work. 6MBcompressed from 18MB worked. The 24MB filesystem has just one extra junkfile in /tmp to fill up the filesystem to 90% and this caused the systemto hang.

I'm thinking it could be the ungzip function in the kernel that's causingthe problem.